"Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable."

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Source : Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.8930, Delphi Classics

Marie Corelli

#Selfish Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Greedy Quotes

“Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said. "I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you." "I thought you might sit on the mag," he said. "It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.”
“I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.”
“All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.”
“What can we do to win these men to Christ?”
“It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.”
“In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.”
“Fondness for people can be terrifying, because it's intangible and it can disappear, or it can be taken away, or you can say the wrong thing. A million things, so it's so uncomfortable. So when you suddenly become aware of it because they don't call you or something for half an hour or whatever, you lose it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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